Despite the sometimes overwhelming heat, I’ve come to appreciate the warm season. The nature is so beautiful! Many trees have renewed the leaves, and the contrast between the reddish sand, the green trees and the blue sky is amazing…
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Despite the sometimes overwhelming heat, I’ve come to appreciate the warm season. The nature is so beautiful! Many trees have renewed the leaves, and the contrast between the reddish sand, the green trees and the blue sky is amazing…
With Aïssa and her relatives (1987)
Aïssa and I (2007)
Just left wondering… Where has the past two decades gone?
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Dressed up and showing his new watch, Saadu poses between his Eden trees in the heart of the Tanout department: trees that he has sown himself and that are now generating an important income for his family.
Trees in Niger are an asset, and fruiting trees even more so. Eden has an […]
We are going back to the field station today to finish off the work that was started when we were there last.
Will probably have some nice pictures to blog about when we come back.
In the meantime, I leave you with a fresh picture for the field taken by an Eden field worker as he […]
He lives on the office veranda and so we see him every day
He attacks the window, licking it, biting it - it’s really hard to tell
He’s recently replaced an old champ, who was accidentally chased out of the open door
He is young but getting more colorful by the day, and is cute to watch
But I […]
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I am trying to figure out what is the best: goat milk or sheep milk?
Being Scandinavian, I am used to goat milk in the most delicious of fashions: Norwegian goat cheese! What I am not accustomed to however is sheep milk. Here in Niger however, sheep milk seems to be prefered over […]
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Some Eden villages are just so beautiful. I love the peace and serenity that comes with the image above - I could hang it on my living room wall and never tire of it.
To have a cup of coffee and a melon by the pool during siestas
To have a blue sky and daily sunshine
To be able to enjoy a fruit a day or even more
To have running water
To live in a house that is a home
To have a family that cares
To have friends who wait for you, even […]
I just came back to work after spending 36 hours home with a 39 degree fever. Anette called to check on me, since she had noticed that I hadn’t blogged anything so far (and the trend lately has been to blog once a day…). I told her that I tried to blog a post yesterday […]
For all those of you who have never been to Zinder, here are a few images!
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